Unravelling linguistic legends: The origins of everyday phrases
Explore linguistic history through Ingrid Wood’s unveiling of stories behind everyday phrases in ‘The Stories Behind the Words’.
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Maths midlife crises: A failure of nerve, not intellect
Maths anxiety in midlife is common among adults who have had negative experiences with mathematics during their school years.
Bru, slang is lekker! Why we should keep our ‘ag shames’ and our ‘ja nees’
Slang is a wonderful way to celebrate our nationality and identity as Carlos Amato explains. It’s also about affiliation and bonding.
It’s like; ‘Hey, wow man!’ – language’s vibrant versatility
Language is a living, thriving thing; no matter how, like, the purists might try and confine our use of words to the straight and narrow.
Language, the environment and what’s left off the table – Weaver
The article highlights the influence media has on modern day society, and while many point fingers at fake news, another key issue is what’s not being reported on.
Connecting with millennials
Today’s Millennials are tomorrow’s clients. They think differently about a lot of things, such as money, and they use language differently to talk about it.
Rian Malan on Zille tweet: SA wounds too raw for colonial truth. Brilliant.
Helen Zille is paying dearly for raising the holy cow of colonialism. Doing so wasn’t in itself wrong, but as Rian Malan explains so brilliantly, for most of South Africa the conversation is premature.
Eckart Schumann: “I have a dream for SA in 2017…”
Physical oceanographer Eckart Schumann provides us with a list of four dreams that he has for South Africa in 2017.
Ed Herbst: Creating a ‘Black Naspers’
Dan Matjila’s rationale about the state helping to create a ‘Naspers” for black people is flawed because that wasn’t the case during the creation of Naspers.
Stellenbosch University: 30 000+ in bid to retain Afrikaans as default language
More than 30 000 alumni and other stakeholders, in collaboration with trade union Solidarity, participated in a recent referendum on the retention of Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University.